The fallout from the Fatima Payman affair continues to rock the Albanese Labor government. The growing political crisis is raising a raft of issues and covering few of the participants in glory. For all her whining about being “intimidated”, the truth is that Payman was treated with kid gloves by
I’ve asked before, and I’ll ask again: when do we start spitting on teachers? It’s a rhetorical question, of course. I’m not really advocating hawk tuah-ing on random chalkies. Most of them are more-or-less dedicated professionals who do a pretty good job. Some are actually brilliant
Well, it looks like Andrew Forrest has learned a thing or two indeed from his paymasters in China. Not just how to literally sell your country to a foreign power, or how to undermine your own, democratically elected government by toadying to the bully-boys of communist dictatorships. Now, his company,
The Dutton opposition in Australia is going big and bold. Ever since John Hewson was belted so thoroughly in 1993 for daring to lay out his policies in detail two years out from an election, the received wisdom has been small-target strategy. Don’t tell anyone what your policies are
He may be as white as the driven snow, but Bruce Pascoe is certainly keeping himself very nicely in the black. Mostly courtesy of the taxpayer, it seems. But then, we’re only too used to being bilked by phony “Aborigines”. But when they have the cheek to go begging
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett is a Brownstone Institute fellow, independent journalist and advocate for Australians injured by the Covid vaccines. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia, and writes for her Substack, Dystopian Down Under. Two years after the Covid mandates ended, the West Australian
For the past few decades, Western countries have been manipulated into the sort of massive social-engineering programmes once associated with totalitarian communist states: the mass farming out of child rearing to the state. The Soviets and the Maoists were very big on creches, so that the workers could slave away
Australia doesn’t have a waka-jumping law, but it often feels like we need one. Time and again, political nobodies scrape together a few hundred votes courtesy of being included at the bottom rung of a party ticket. Having exploited the party name, they proceed to use it as a
As I’ve written many times, the Brittany Higgins saga is the circus that just won’t quit. And now we’re getting the high divin’ act riding bareback on a pony. When the whole affair erupted into public view, it was hard not to suspect that there was a
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Northern Territory police commissioner has announced a curfew in Alice Springs for the next three nights due to a series of violent incidents in the town.
You have to laugh at the mainstream media sometimes. They’re so obviously desperate. Especially when they think everyone else is as dumb as the lefty peanut gallery they’re playing to. No matter how hard they try to spin a story, the spin is just too obvious. Case in
Yet again, it must be asked, just who do Fatima Payman and Mehreen Faruqi represent? The people of WA and NSW, or Gaza and Hamas? Payman, the “accidental senator” elected by a micro-vote on a Labor Party ticket, has thrown the Albanese government into turmoil by defecting over the sole
Life’s a funny old thing when you’re a former Dear Leader of the Covid Cult who’s retired from government and hoping to just slip quietly into the shadows. One minute, you’re getting fast-tracked for a gong by your Labor mates, the next, an old scandal that
Damon Hayhow Damon is the founder of the National Recomposition Institute and creator and founder of the Recomposer software system. He was also formerly the Australian Ambassador to the International Society of Sports Nutrition, president of the World Powerlifting Congress Australia and an Australian Champion in Bodybuilding and Powerlifting. A
As I wrote recently, Australian PM Anthony Albanese just can’t get a winner. Nothing he does is working for him. Tax cuts, wage rises, handouts and all the traditional pork-barreling stuff is falling into open pockets and on closed ears. Mostly because of his own ham-fisted political stupidity. Albo
After years of the left seeing ‘Nazi symbolism’ in even the most ludicrous places, a former Nazi symbol adopted by a modern terrorist group was flown from the roof of the Australian parliament. And the increasingly openly anti-Semitic left couldn’t have been more chuffed. A group of ‘pro-Palestinian’ supporters
